8ball
Decolonise colons!
Are they raising the age of consent or something?
Russell Brand on Revolution
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Are they raising the age of consent or something?
ska invita
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Brand said: “People keep asking me how The Revolution will work. "We all want to bring down the government and establish a personal and global utopia but how?" they ask.
“Well in this book, I'm going to explain it. Having accrued the greatest wisdom known to man (by conducting interviews, watching DVDs, reading books, thinking and looking at the sky) I am now able to put in a simple, accessible book(y wook) the solution to internal and external turmoil. And about time too.”
“Well in this book, I'm going to explain it. Having accrued the greatest wisdom known to man (by conducting interviews, watching DVDs, reading books, thinking and looking at the sky) I am now able to put in a simple, accessible book(y wook) the solution to internal and external turmoil. And about time too.”
Mr Revolution, by Roger Hargreaves.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Whose in charge of marketing on this one?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
paxman
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"Century will publish the new book in hardback in October 2014 with an Arrow paperback in 2015."
...so step one to the Revolution is publish your best-selling manfiesto with a publisher in the Random House Group, in order to swell the coffers of the Groups owners, German media giants Bertelsmann (Revenue €16.065 billion (2012)), who in turn will use those profits to fund their political campaigning as the Bertelsmann Foundation, who have "promoted neoliberal ideas such as an increase of competition in education and research and for the introduction of tuition fees to the German university system".
Cosmic simpleton interviews Daid lcke 
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I WAS going to say that one thing I really respect about Noam Chomsky is that he sticks with left publishers, when surely the big houses (now firm parts of bigger conglomerates) would jump at publishing his books...but now i look again, of his last few books theres quite a few Penguin/Penguin imprints - Penguin also owned by Bertelsmann....
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Chomsky's a tax dodger isn't he?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
cunning linguist
Penguin Random House is joint owned by Pearson. Not that they're any better than Bertelsmann.
Yes think so. And his books are under copyright.
I thought the copyright was held in his kids name so he wasn't liable for tax or something?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Is he 12?
Has he I love jemmima on his satchel?
Has he I love jemmima on his satchel?
butchersapron
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Graeber already thinks he's a star - the ego on him when he's interviewed is Brandesque. Could be a clash.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Turning rebellion into .....
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
trousers!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Here he is - undercover - on the left asking for directions to the TAZ
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
too easy.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
*Edited as I have sworn to be nice to people this week*
He's entertaining and a very cunning linguist, I will give him that. I can't understand though why he doesn't donate all surplus income to worthy charities... or maybe he's saving it to fill milk bottles with petrol and wheel barrows with bricks when the revolution starts.
Edit: quoted the wrong post initially.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
why does any one care what Russell Brand says?
Because he waxes lyrical about socialist ideology whilst being a multi millionaire.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Am I the only one who thinks he might just be an egotistical celebrity wanker? Does anyone take him seriously?
He just strikes me as a caricature.
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